Grammar Chipper Chat®

by Nancy Crist, Rose Sheedy, and Sharon G. Webber, M.S.
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Grades K-5

Travel deep into the grammar jungle and come out a winner with Grammar Chipper Chat! This exciting magnetic chip game explores 16 of the grammatical structures found on most language assessments, including the CELF and the TOLD. Each grammar area has 20 or 30 color-coded question cards (400 cards total!) with a sentence prompt on one side and picture(s) on the other side. The student fills in the missing word on the question side using the pictures as cues. Grammar Chipper Chat addresses the following grammatical structures:

3rd Person Singular Verbs

Changing Nouns to Adjectives

Changing Nouns to Verbs

Comparatives

Superlatives

Copula (is/are, was/were)

Future Tense

Irregular Past-Tense Verbs

Irregular Plurals

Noun-Verb Agreement

Possessive Nouns

Possessive Pronouns

Prepositions

Present Progressive Verbs

Regular Past-Tense Verbs

Regular Plurals

Subjective Pronouns

Best of all! Each of the 60 Chipper Chat boards has a photo of an animal with the animal name spelled out in the spaces. These engaging game boards provide countless opportunities for your students to practice the grammatical structures they learned by creating sentences about their animal. Let the Syntax Safari begin!